The hand is painful and swollen after being bitten by a centipede usually can be treated with general treatment, physical therapy or medication as prescribed by the doctor, such as applying hydrocortisone ointment.
1. General treatment: Immediately flush the wound and its surrounding area with water, then rinse the wound with water, rinse the residual liquid and immediately disinfect the wound with iodophor, then cover the wound with gauze.
2. Physical therapy: physical therapy can be carried out, such as cold compresses with towels wrapped in ice packs on the wound, which can quickly make the local trauma vasoconstriction, reduce local swelling, but also reduce nerve sensitivity, so that the short-term impairment of nerve conduction function, reduce pain.
3. medication: you can apply hydrocortisone ointment to the affected area for treatment, with anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, antipruritic effect, can reduce the local swelling; pain is severe, you can take acetaminophen for treatment, inhibit the synthesis of prostaglandins, antipyretic and analgesic, so as to relieve the symptoms.
If the patient’s hand is bitten by the centipede and pain and swelling, after rinsing with water in time, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, under the guidance of the doctor, so as not to delay the condition. The medication should follow the doctor’s instructions.